The route actually taken.

Bright sunshine and lovely Dorset countryside.

Some of the dozen Tumuli, bronze age burial mounds, set out in two rows of six near Eastbury House.
The countryside here is rich in prehistoric features.

Some of the colourful autumn wild flowers on the banks of the droves.

A lovely spot for lunch on the ancient Wessex Ridgeway at Great Peaky Coppice looking across towards Farnham. I saw no-one walking all day.

A fragment of the Roman Road which swept across this area is still visible as a mound with bank on either side running top left to bottom right near Manor Hill Cottage.

... and back in late afternoon sun to the car at the entrance to The Larmer Tree Gardens.